- Drama: Naniwa Junior Detectives (English title)
- Romaji: Naniwa Shonen Tanteidan
- Japanese: 浪花少年探偵団
- Director: Makoto Kiyohiro, Tatsuya Ikezawa, Yosuke Higashida
- Writer: Keigo Higashino (novel), Noriko Yoshida, Michiru Egashira, Souru Numazu
- Network: TBS
- Episodes: 12
- Release Date: July 2 – September 17, 2012
- Runtime: Mondays 20:00-20:54
- TV Ratings: 6.1% (weekly average)
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Shinobu Takeuchi (Mikako Tabe) becomes a homeroom teacher at Ooki Elemntary School in Osaka, Japan. Shinobu loves mystery novels and can’t stand things when it doesn’t turn out right. Shinobu then attempts to solve a difficult cases that even detectives can’t solve.
Notes
- Based on the Keigo Higashino novel “Naniwa Shonen Tanteida” (published December, 1988) and its sequel “Shinobu Senseni Sayonara” (published December 12, 1996).
Cast
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Mikako Tabe | Teppei Koike | Koji Yamamoto | Fumino Kimura | Yasunori Danta |
Shinobu Takeuchi | Shuhei Shindo | Yoshihiko Honma | Mika Haruna | Susumu Urushizaki |
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Fumiyo Kohinata | Keiko Matsuzaka | Yoichi Nukumizu | Yuki Saito |
Yukio Nakata | Taeko Takeuchi | Masao Harada | Hideko Harada |
Naniwa private detective team
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Koki Maeda | Tatsuomi Hamada | Akira Takahashi |
Ikuo Harada | Tetpei Tanaka | Hiroshi Hatanaka |
6 grade 2 class
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Minami Hamabe | Seigo Agatsuma | Fuka Imai | Riku Ichikawa | Akari Ninomiya |
Nana Asakura | Shyota Abe | Mo Ishikawa | Takuma Inoue | Minako Uehara |
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Mao Sasaki | Taiga Matsuno | Kazuki Hashimoto | Hajime Yoshii | Tomoka Umezawa |
Misaki Eto | Ryota Kato | Junichi Shibuya | Tsutomu Serizawa | Yuka Sonoda |
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Yuki Yagi | Tatsuki Yoshioka | Rena Kawata | Reiwa Suzuki | Runa Sato |
Fumi Tsuchiya | Yuta Nakanishi | Asuka Negishi | Tsubasa Noda | Momoko Hino |
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Masaki Izawa | Maika Tarumoto | Riki Tanifuji | Kanako Furukawa | Mikuni Kuramae |
Tomohiro Fukushima | Haruka Matsukawa | Sho Manaka | Natsuki Miwa | Mai Mochida |
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Kurumi Yokoyama |
Miu Yoshikawa |
5 grade 1 class
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Oshiro Maeda | Raima Hiramatsu |
Osamu Harada | Masato Nishida |
Additional Cast Members:
- Ariei Umefune – crime laboratory investigation section member
- Hiroaki Daimon
- Yuichi Kimura – Fumio Fukushima (ep.1)
- Yasuko Tomita – Yukie Fukushima (ep.1)
- Seiji Rokkaku – Mizutani (ep.1)
- Ryosuke Otani – Daisuke Ogawa (ep.1)
- Tomoharu Hasegawa – Kido (ep.1)
- Masami Hisamoto – Noriko Yamada (ep.1)
- Nobuo Kyo – Shunichi Wakamoto (ep.1,2,9)
- Magi – Kobayashi (ep.2)
- Takashi Kobayashi – Police Chief (ep.2)
- Kazuyuki Aijima – Takeo Motoyama (ep.3)
- Kotaro Shiga – Ichiro Tomura (ep.3)
- Bokuzo Masana – Tanabe (ep.3)
- Marie Machida – Yuriko Ohara (ep.3)
- Yuko Fueki – Machiko Asakura (ep.3)
- Tsumugi Hatakeyama – (ep.3)
- Shinobu Tsuruta – (ep.3)
- Keizo Kanie – Senbai Nishimaru (ep.4)
- Zen Kajihara – Shoichi Nishimaru (ep.4)
- Seiko Takuma – Kazuyo (ep.4)
- Shizuka Fujimoto – Fukuko Otomo (ep.4)
- Terue Shoji – Tsuruko Fujino (ep.5)
- Junkichi Orimoto – Yohei Fujino (ep.5)
- Kotomi Kyono – Ikuko Serizawa (ep.6)
- Issei Takahashi – Hiroo Yamashita (ep.6)
- Masahiro Kobayashi – Tamotsu Serizawa (ep.6)
- Mei Satsuki – Yoko Shibuya (ep.6,12)
- Narimi Arimori – Chieko Miyashita (ep.7)
- Hiromasa Taguchi – Masashi Uehara (ep.7)
- Tamae Ando – Marie Uehara (ep.7)
- Tsutomu Takahashi – Toshio Arakawa (ep.7)
- Mariko Tsutsui – Tomomi Nakanishi (ep.8)
- Moe Arai – Keiko Nakanishi (ep.8)
- Momoka Ishii – Chizuru Anzai (ep.9)
- Hiroko Nakajima – Yoshiko Anzai (ep.9)
- Hitomi Nakahara – Ineko Matsuoka (ep.9)
- Shunya Isaka – Goro Matsumoto (ep.10)
- Marika Matsumoto – Chikako Takano (ep.10)
- Saori Koide – Akiko Fujikawa (ep.10)
- Yuta Kanai – Naotsugu Sakai (ep.10)
- Eri Fuse – Michiyo Tsutsui (ep.10)
- Machiko Washio – cake shop owner (ep.10)
- Takeshi Masu – Masato Iizuka (ep.11)
- Chiharu – Miyoko Tanaka (ep.11-12)
- Kumiko Fujiyoshi – Kazumi Miyamoto (ep.11-12)
- Takehiro Hira – Toru Yokota (ep.11-12)
Episode Ratings
Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
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01 | 07/02/2012 | 7.8% |
02 | 07/09/2012 | 6.0% |
03 | 07/16/2012 | 5.6% |
04 | 07/23/2012 | 7.1% |
05 | 07/30/2012 | 5.5% |
06 | 08/06/2012 | 6.4% |
07 | 08/13/2012 | 6.6% |
08 | 08/20/2012 | 5.7% |
09 | 08/27/2012 | 5.7% |
10 | 09/03/2012 | 5.4% |
11 | 09/10/2012 | 5.4% |
12 | 09/17/2012 | 4.4% |
Average | 6.1% |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.